CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

The Creative Tourism Network®is the Official World Creative Tourism Organization

  • RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT + INNOVATION (R+D+i)

    RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT + INNOVATION (R+D+i)

NEWS

Creative Tourism, a sustainable driver for UNESCO and European Union.

CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS 2025: A luxury panel of winners!

CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS 2025 … And the winners are… !

Call for Applications : CreativeFriendlyDestination label

CREATIVE TOURISM: CANNES, NEW GLOBAL LEADER!

Salvador da Bahia fosters Creative Tourism

Salvador da Bahia, successful World Conference of Creative Tourism

NEW CreativeFriendlyDestinations Catalogue!

G20 : The Creative Tourism Network invited to share good practices!

Brazil: International Conference on Creative Tourism

Bahrain: Creative Tourism at the UN Tourism World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism

Salvador da Bahia leads the World Creative Tourism Awards!

Creative tourism: Charentes Region – France – receives the CreativeFriendlyDestination label

Webinar on UNTourismQuest Certification: an opportunity for DMOs:

UNESCO : Barcelos, world creative meeting-point

UN Tourism Congress: Andorra, Creative Destination for Mountain Tourism!

Fitur is committed to creative tourism – orange tourism

Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) awarded “World Best Creative Destination”

CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Bamboo cooking

Silleteras farms

Painting and wine workshops

Up Fab Lab 3D printing 

Iron and derivates 

Yunguilla Community Tourism

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Olha! Recife

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

Paint the galo de Barcelos

Haskap and permaculture

Body expression

Mosaic workshop in Barcelona

Exotic fruit tour

Amulet Making in Thailand

Biot | France

Barcelos imagery

School of Quito – Intarsia workshop : wood inlaying

Print making with Casa Plan  

Djerba | Tunisia

Making a Taleigo bag

Beeswax candles

Brew your own beer!

Fig Trilogy

Sining eskinita 

Art-deco paper jewellery

Baguio | Philippines

Merit Creation in Thailand

Creation of a drop-down book in star format in an art-studio at the Poble Espanyol

Creative Arts Workshops

Breads of Barcelos creative city

Rumba and sardana dances class

Olive oil workshop

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Barcelos pottery

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

“Tapas” workshop in Barcelona

Wood carving workshops

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

Photography workshops

Herbalism and summer care

Kingston | Jamaica

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Customize your Anduze vase

Catalan crafts

Catalan cooking class

Traditional weaving workshop

SUCCESS STORIES

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

The Tourist Board of La Bisbal d’Empordà wins the Innovation Award 2023 of Catalonia

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Creative Tourism: an alternative to discover the culture and know-how of the Villages and Landscapes of Charentes:

How to Spend 1 Day in the Empordanet: a Creative Itinerary

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

World Championship in Olive Picking receives its award for Best Creative Experience at FITUR 2020

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

Les Escapades (Québec), awarded at the Creative Tourism Awards

Quito expands its creative tourism offer through the experiential´Andes Road´

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Why is creative tourism a solution to reactivate tourism in times of pandemic?

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

La Ruta Culinaria de Túnez celebra el Día Mundial del Turismo mostrando las experiencias creadas por sus embajadores locales.

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli launches an exclusive creative tourism offer for the summer season!

A Oficina de Turismo de La Bisbal d’Empordà ganha o Prémio Catalunha 2023 para a Inovação

A Oficina de Turismo de La Bisbal d’Empordà ganha o Prémio Catalunha 2023 para a Inovação

La Cité des Électriciens (France) voted “Best Creative Lodging” by the Creative Tourism Awards

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEW / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a City of Gastronomy

Interview with Sabrina Pratt, SVPratt Creative Strategies – Las Cruces Arts and Cultural District Plan (New Mexico, USA)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Interview with Yonka Bakardzhieva-Agalova – My Story Travel (Bulgaria)

Interview with Carol Hay, Director of Marketing UK & Europe for the Caribbean Tourism Organization

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Is Creative Tourism the new Swiss army knife of post-covid tourism?

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Interview with Ivana Jelinčić, World Championship in Olive Picking (Postira, Brač Island, Croatia)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Catherine and Sophie, La Méduse (Iles de la Madeleine, Canada)